Appearing like a winged fairy-tale creature poised on a pedestal, this object is actually a billowing tower of cold gas…
This stellar relic, first spied by William Herschel in 1787, is nicknamed the Eskimo Nebula (NGC 2392) because, when viewed…
Astronaut F. Story Musgrave, anchored on the end of the Remote Manipulator System arm, prepares to be elevated to the…
An exhaust cloud billowed around Launch Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida as space shuttle Discovery lifted…
Space shuttle Discovery’s engines ignited at 6:21 a.m. EDT Monday, April 5, for liftoff of the STS-131 mission from Launch…
The Russian-built Mini-Research Module-1 is prepared for installation in the payload canister before transport to Launch Pad 39A.
